Approximately 25 people marched in downtown Oswego Saturday in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The group, calling themselves Occupy Oswego, marched from the Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce to Oswego City Hall. Last weekend, the group held a march where seven people participated.

“We’re trying to publicize the movement in our own area and express our outrage at the situation,” said Mary Loe, a participant in the march.

Loe said she believes inequality is increasing in the United States and big money continues to buy Congress. She is also concerned about people losing jobs and having their pensions cut.

“Everyone I know in my own family has to be concerned about their pensions or jobs,” she said. On one side of her sign she had printed “Jobs now. Campaign Reform ASAP.”

The group spent an hour on the corner of East Second and Bridge streets before marching across the bridge to the west side of the Oswego River. They chanted slogans like, “We got sold out, banks got bailed out” and “We are the 99 percent.” Passing cars honked their horns in support.

Participant Linda Bond-Clark spoke about the misconception that the rich pay the majority of taxes, while it really the poor who pay a higher volume.

“No one is looking out for the poor,” she said. “It’s the assault on the poor that brings us out.”

One of the factors that brought Jim Anderson is the control the Federal Reserve has over money in the United States.

“It’s a private organization that says it’s a government agency,” he said. “No one has control over the money system except them.”

Marshall Ennis, a graduate student at the State University of New York at Oswego, said he’s concerend that debt is rising at the same time that the prices of goods and services increase.

“It’s not the kind of country I want my kids to grow up in right now,” Ennis said.